Windows Forms 2010

Windows Forms controls fully compatible with Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2010 give you more stylability for your forms and dialogs with a new drop-in component. You still have the breadth and depth of Office® 2010 and Windows® 7 user experiences with our scenic ribbon control, one of the most fully-featured .NET data grids on the market, and even powerful Gantt charts with Microsoft® Project-style richness and features. Innovations arrive with each release; read the New Features section for power user capabilities like resizable dropdowns, run-time dialogs with a new look and feel, and version-free assembly names that simplify application deployment.

With the ability to import and export native Microsoft Excel .xls workbooks, multiple sheets and cross-sheet formula referencing hierarchical display, grouping and the new outline grouping like Excel conditional formatting, sorting, row filtering, searching, zooming undo/redo, data binding or unbound modes, pdf export, and splitter bars you can create a solution for any application. And that's just the tip of the iceberg. Complete customization at the cell level is possible with the 18 cell types (including the ability to create your own custom cell types), cell spans, multiple headers, shapes, 320 built-in calculation functions, cell tips and notes, and much more

In the .NET environment, GUI elements like menus, buttons, lists, trees–and of course the window itself–are created and deployed using the new Windows Forms framework. Windows Forms is an object-oriented set of classes that offers an effective, modern programming environment for rich Windows applications development.

.NET Windows Forms are a powerful technology for building a large class of applications for the Windows .NET platform. They offer nearly the same power and flexibility of classic Win32 development, but for a fraction of the effort.